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Works in Progress

Friday Status Post: 21 Dec 2018

BIG THINGS ACHIEVED THIS WEEK: A whole bunch of Brain Jar busy work, including: New covers for You Don’t Want To Be Published and The Birdcage Heart. Finalising and uploading copies of Hornets Attack Your Best Friend Victor and Other Things We Called The Band, which will be the next Brain Jar Short Story release scheduled for Boxing Day. Resuming daily Conan posts over on Twitter, after some very intermittent posting over recent weeks. Christmas Shopping. STATE OF THE WRITING PROJECTS: Warhol Sleeping progresses scene by scene, but it’s well and truly over 40k now, which means we’re in short novel territory. I’m also working on a MMA-in-Space project that riffs on Robert E. Howard’s Sailor Steve Costigan stories, as a bit of a palate cleanser after the difficult narrator of Warhol Sleeping. CURRENT EARWORM: Bad Romance, Lady Gaga. Or possibly the Amanda Palmer version. I just have a whole bunch of oh-ra-oh-la-la running through my skull and it isn’t going away. CURRENT READING: I’ve ended up reading Genevive Valentine’s Mechanique: A

PeterMBall 21/12/2018
Sunday Circle

The Sunday Circle: What Are You Working On This Week?

It’s been a long, complicated week, as they tend to be at this time of the year. New Years is coming, people go on holiday, and managing your focus is a necessity if you want to get things done. If you’ve been feeling the drag on you projects this week, come join me for this week’s instalment of: The Sunday Circle is the weekly check-in where I ask the creative-types who follow this blog to weigh in about their goals, inspirations, and challenges for the coming week. The logic behind it can be found here. Want to be involved? It’s easy – just answer three questions in the comments or on your own blog (with a link in the comments here, so that everyone can find them). After that, throw some thoughts around about other people’s projects, ask questions if you’re so inclined. Be supportive above all. Then show up again next Sunday when the circle updates next, letting us

PeterMBall 16/12/2018
Adventures in Lifestyle Hacking

Rebuilding a Creative Routine After It’s All Gone To Hell

Joanna Penn’s post about the importance of Creative Routines showed up in my RSS reader this morning. I clicked on it immediately because, right now, my creative routine is basically out the window and there are no hard edges around my process. I scramble after whatever project needs attention most urgently, engaging in long work binges where I’m doing as much as possible to keep all the plates spinning. Here’s the thing: I love my creative routine. I know the value of having hard edges to my work day, and the power of slow, incremental progress on a particular project. I also know how easily this stuff gets derailed because I start focusing on solutions instead of figuring out what problem I’m trying to solve.  In short, I’m falling back on two key fallacies of creative project management: If I’m busy enough, no-one can blame me for things not being great, and repeating the same solution even after it doesn’t work, because obviously

PeterMBall 13/12/2018
Sunday Circle

The Sunday Circle: What Are You Working On This Week?

The Sunday Circle is the weekly check-in where I ask the creative-types who follow this blog to weigh in about their goals, inspirations, and challenges for the coming week. The logic behind it can be found here. Want to be involved? It’s easy – just answer three questions in the comments or on your own blog (with a link in the comments here, so that everyone can find them). After that, throw some thoughts around about other people’s projects, ask questions if you’re so inclined. Be supportive above all. Then show up again next Sunday when the circle updates next, letting us know how you did on your weekly project and what you’ve got coming down the pipe in the coming week (if you’d like to part of the circle, without subscribing to the rest of the blog, you can sign-up for reminders via email here). MY CHECK-IN What am I working on this week? I’m keeping a very narrow

PeterMBall 09/12/2018
Works in Progress

Friday Status Post: 7 Dec 2018

BIG THINGS ACHIEVED THIS WEEK: Aside from the release of The Early Experiments (available now, but free for all newsletter subscribers), this week’s achievements have largely been progress on projects-where-I-would-oridinarily-drag-my-feet. The short-list looks like this: I wrote a good chunk of my conference paper and started condensing the research into a formatted argument I wrote the advertising copy for a pair of short-story reprints I’m releasing as stand-alone reads for people who want to get a taste of my fiction I put together a whole new newsletter on-boarding sequence and did a forward plan for how that will change over time.  Designed four seperate covers for upcoming projects, including next year’s Warhol Sleeping release.  Not the sort of thing that sounds exciting, but they’re projects where I risk showing my ask as an amateur, which means they’re ordinarily delayed.  CURRENT STATUS OF WARHOL SLEEPING: Stuck on a thorny bit of the final act, bridging towards the final stretch. I’ve done something in

PeterMBall 07/12/2018
Adventures in Lifestyle Hacking

Balancing Act

I’ve taken to doing a Friday Status Update here on the blog, recapping where I’m at and what’s going on in various parts of the world, which means that Thursdays are rapidly becoming the day when I review projects and make decisions about the coming week.  I started today by doing a brain dump of all the projects that are occupying my attention at the moment–essentially, the things on my to-do list that are proving sticky, nagging at my attention because I don’t feel adequately in-control or like they’re advancing. The short-list runs something like this: Write my conference paper Prepare for mid-candidature review on my thesis Produce at least two more thesis novella drafts Finalise the current thesis novella draft Write four more thesis chapters Finish Warhol Sleeping Tidy my desk (still a force of chaos) Update the old CGW products (particularly the two books that are at the short-burst-of-busy-work stage) Finish my plan for the the next non-fiction

PeterMBall 06/12/2018
Sunday Circle

The Sunday Circle: What Are You Working On This Week?

The Sunday Circle is the weekly check-in where I ask the creative-types who follow this blog to weigh in about their goals, inspirations, and challenges for the coming week. The logic behind it can be found here. Want to be involved? It’s easy – just answer three questions in the comments or on your own blog (with a link in the comments here, so that everyone can find them). After that, throw some thoughts around about other people’s projects, ask questions if you’re so inclined. Be supportive above all. Then show up again next Sunday when the circle updates next, letting us know how you did on your weekly project and what you’ve got coming down the pipe in the coming week (if you’d like to part of the circle, without subscribing to the rest of the blog, you can sign-up for reminders via email here). MY CHECK-IN What am I working on this week? I started re-building the final

PeterMBall 02/12/2018
News & Upcoming Events

Friday Status Post: Brain Jar Turns 1

I released The Birdcage Heart and Other Strange Tales on November 30th last year, which makes this the official first birthday of Brain Jar Press. Over the last twelve months I’ve put out two short story collections, one essay collection, and a pair of short stories in the new Short Fiction Lab series. For those who would like to catch up on everything we’ve done real fast, I’ve put together a discounted mega-volume of everything Brain Jar released over the last twelve months: The Brain Jar Press Year One Box Set (Amazon US | Amazon Australia | Amazon UK).  It’s an Amazon-only release for the moment, courtesy of the fact that some of the content is enrolled in Kindle Unlimited and can’t be uploaded elsewhere until the exclusivity period is done. I’d overlooked that while putting it together, and I’m kicking myself a little. Still, one year in, and it’s the first really irritating mis-step in my process, which isn’t bad. This

PeterMBall 30/11/2018
Journal

Don’t Look Down

I finally had a chance to clear my RSS feed over the weekend, and uncovered a fascinating profile on Janelle Monáe and the productivity tools/corporate structure she uses over on Fast Company, and the things she’s picked up from businesses like Pixar.  Interesting reading. But I’m still not the biggest fan of Slack. # Speaking of business models: once you decide on something, especially in the early days, it can be easy to second guess yourself. In a lot of ways, building a writing career is a lot like walking a tightrope between two buildings–if you look down and pay attention to what the fuck it is you’re doing, then you’re immediately going to make things a hell of a lot harder. Instead, your main job once the destination is set is focusing on the little things you are meant to be doing in that moment–the little flexes of muscle that maintain your balance, adjusting your grip on the balance

PeterMBall 26/11/2018
Sunday Circle

The Sunday Circle: What Are You Working On This Week?

It’s the three-year anniversary of the Sunday Circle this week, which I almost missed amid the chaos of the last seven days. Big thanks to all past and present circle posters–I appreciate you dropping in and sharing your weekly goals with us. The Sunday Circle is the weekly check-in where I ask the creative-types who follow this blog to weigh in about their goals, inspirations, and challenges for the coming week. The logic behind it can be found here. Want to be involved? It’s easy – just answer three questions in the comments or on your own blog (with a link in the comments here, so that everyone can find them). After that, throw some thoughts around about other people’s projects, ask questions if you’re so inclined. Be supportive above all. Then show up again next Sunday when the circle updates next, letting us know how you did on your weekly project and what you’ve got coming down the pipe

PeterMBall 25/11/2018
Stuff

Friday Status Post – 23 Nov 2018

I am sitting at my desk and trying to corral all the projects on my immediate to-do list, which I’ve allowed to get slightly out of control. That was to be expected this week, so I’ve largely run with the wolves, but I’m not sure it would be a good idea to carry this level of chaos past the weekend. The most urgent is doing the final checks on Eight Minutes of Usable Daylight, which will roll out fro the short fiction lab early next week and therefore has a narrow window in which to make last-minute changes.  Almost as urgent is getting a new chapter redrafted in Warhol Sleeping, which is proving to be a slower process than I’d originally anticipated. My original goal with Warhol Sleeping was putting out a 25,000 word novella on November 30; now I’ve got seven chapters left on the revision list, after which I expect the final book to be closer to a short

PeterMBall 23/11/2018
Sunday Circle

The Sunday Circle: What Are You Working On This Week?

The Sunday Circle is the weekly check-in where I ask the creative-types who follow this blog to weigh in about their goals, inspirations, and challenges for the coming week. The logic behind it can be found here. Want to be involved? It’s easy – just answer three questions in the comments or on your own blog (with a link in the comments here, so that everyone can find them). After that, throw some thoughts around about other people’s projects, ask questions if you’re so inclined. Be supportive above all. Then show up again next Sunday when the circle updates next, letting us know how you did on your weekly project and what you’ve got coming down the pipe in the coming week (if you’d like to part of the circle, without subscribing to the rest of the blog, you can sign-up for reminders via email here). MY CHECK-IN What am I working on this week? My dad ended up in

PeterMBall 18/11/2018

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